Fishing and Gear Technology

Unit 9. Fishing hooks

9.3 Artificial baits or jigs
For enticing or luring fish to take the hook, various types and shapes of artificial baits are used.
These types of artificial baits are more effective for catching swift swimmers, feeding on small moving animals. These artificial baits attract fishes either by their shape, color or by their reflection. In troll lines the attraction is not only due to appearance but also by their movement similar to those of exhausted prey.
Tin, lead, brass, horn of oxen and buffalo, whale bone, feather with different color, plastic fishes and squids etc. are used as artificial baits.